Welcome to Atomic

By David Hollingworth
10:53 Sep 10, 2008 | 37 Comments
Tags: Welcome | to | Atomic

Your favourite enthusiast computing and gaming site has just finished levelling up. Ding!

Things are a little different around the Atomic site today.

Actually, things are very different, but one thing has remained the same – our commitment to bring you best in tech news and reviews, gaming of all kinds, and the latest cutting edge technology advances. If anything, with our new site we are going to bring you more of the stuff you love, and a lot more besides.

So what’s new? Well, the new design should be pretty obvious, and we all think our developers have done a pretty bang up job of bringing Atomic into the modern web age. What’s more, many of the changes around the site are reflected in the latest issue of the magazine; the Atomic family is now more tightly integrated than ever.

And then, of course, there’s content. The big new changes are that the site is now capable of displaying cool things like image galleries, proper group tests, and far more detailed review scoring across the board. We’ve even introduced Reader Reviews to the site, so if you have an opinion, sharing it is now easier than ever.

And then, of course, there’s the forums... we’ve completely ditched the old, hand-crafted and time-worn code and replaced it with a shiny new, fully featured and modern forum package. We’ve also re-arranged things a little in terms of topics and such, so that it’s now a slightly cleaner set of topics that make more sense for the way the old forums were being used anyway. All your old details should have been moved across, so you better get used to the new place – click the link above and you’ll be whisked away.

Finally, in celebration of this great new day for Atomic, I would like to extend a personal invitation to all previously banned members - an amnesty. It’s a clean slate for Atomic, and it can be a clean slate for you too. Just... play nice, okay? Email me if you’re interested in this one-time only offer to rejoin the Atomic Forums.

And that’s it, really. Have a look around the new site, and check out the forums. Write a review and share your opinions with us.

Welcome to Atomic.

David Hollingworth
Editor

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37 Comments

The End Sep 10, 2008 1:51 PM	OOoooo. Shiny. Looks like a new fangled website now, and not like the sort they issued us with back in the war. Whippersnappers these days. Don't know how good they've got it.
PurpleOddity Sep 10, 2008 2:05 PM	Site looks fantastic! In a shocking change of tradition we have a redesign that works perfectly in Opera. Mmm, shiny.
Hawkeye Sep 10, 2008 2:16 PM	And it's not too bad in Chrome, either! - David Hollingworth
Coggsa Sep 10, 2008 2:17 PM	I'm having issues makking comments, but apart from that it looks s**t hot! Nice work!
Demonic Sep 10, 2008 2:19 PM	Looks awsome and very modern Although retro looked sweet too maybe dual modes modern or retro lol
Mordain Sep 10, 2008 2:20 PM	Awesome upgrade guys! You managed to move forward from the more plain/flat black and green atomic layout to something edgier and sleeker looking without sacrificing that great atomic style =D GRTZ ON DING!
Smaugeh Sep 10, 2008 2:58 PM	I like it. It's not too bad on the eyes (then again - neither was the previous design), and it makes finding different articles fair easy. I do miss the forum selection bar on the left, though.
SceptreCore Sep 10, 2008 2:59 PM	Personally I like the new look, but I prefer how the old one made more use of the space.... perhaps chuck in some links down the side guys???
Goonit Sep 10, 2008 3:17 PM	Big improvement! Thanks Davey.
Kimmo Sep 10, 2008 3:30 PM	Amnesty, sweet. About time BC was back. He can cut sick with the img tag now : )
PC FREAK Sep 10, 2008 4:05 PM	I really like the new front end, parts of new forums are nice (easier to read). But i still really liked the old forums.
SkitZaY Sep 10, 2008 4:16 PM	I preferred the Retro site.
smadge1 Sep 10, 2008 4:39 PM	Needs a fair bit of polishing, but it's a good starting point.
Kommando Sep 10, 2008 4:41 PM	Woo! it looks great, the old hand coded may have been cool, but languishing in dev hell isnt very atomic. hurrah for atomic, hurrah for IPB and hurrah for amnesty!
Vanne Sep 10, 2008 4:51 PM	I loved the interm one, reminded me of the ol BBS's :)
tresurehunt Sep 10, 2008 6:04 PM	what happened to all the old posts ?
Takoma Sep 10, 2008 6:29 PM	Oh lawds, let's hope [R/R] is up for another round....
Yarrago Sep 10, 2008 7:16 PM	It's just about sacrilege not to have hand crafted forums isn't it? I remember the good ol days when you V1.0 (or was it 1.5) went haywire and cross posted everything...now that was a barrel of monkeys :D, and the security flaw that had everyone change their password. A whole 90 pixels for avatar now you say...well in my day we only had 64…tut tut :) I like the new look although its taking a bit to get used to and I really like that the forums have been reorganised by and large. Now we just need to some enthusiasm back in the tech areas. Anyone got any stats on posts per day / what areas posts were made over the lifetime of these forums…would be very interesting to see. Yarrago P.S. Is there any way to get back to the old forums...or am I just living in the past :).
moofactory Sep 10, 2008 7:39 PM	OMFG... About bloody time.. Welcome to current web trends, goodbye 2002. Thanks so much for allowing this to happen, I couldn't have done it better myself, We lurking in the web and design threads salute you... Well I do anywho.
emccat Sep 10, 2008 7:50 PM	yeah the new atomic site looks really shiny (the old one looked good) but this one is better
emccat Sep 10, 2008 7:50 PM	yeah the new atomic site looks really shiny (the old one looked good) but this one is better
fliptopia Sep 10, 2008 8:04 PM	Personally I feel that this site is now a complete balls up. The old site was pretty much just right. The new one just looks like everything else and has little to no character. Also, what happened to all the photography posts?
fliptopia Sep 10, 2008 8:25 PM	HHHMmmmm, I can't edit that post above so... edit: now that my knee has finished jerking, I still don't like the look of the current site. I understand something had to be done due to various users having various problems with various things so, if we could get something with the new workings and the old look and feel then that would be just super.
elfinke Sep 10, 2008 9:00 PM	Gah, I hate it. Too bright, looks like every other god-forsaken piece o' shit PHP forum on the intarwebs. Sure, it's still atomic, and I'll continue to hit the console forum up for a good argument or 3 with the regular lads, but jeez... this is a vicious upgrade for the senses. Also, black on white = hardcorefail.
Hawkeye Sep 10, 2008 10:29 PM	Might want to go make these comments on the forum itself, guys. - David Hollingworth
I_am_ME Sep 10, 2008 11:28 PM	Has/Is any of the old forums been archived anywhere? I had a help request in the Open Source forum, now it's gone. :-/
hydro dave Sep 11, 2008 12:07 AM	+1 to I_am_ME Me seein stars from all the brights. Missin the Green:(
woodgrub Sep 11, 2008 4:37 AM	OMG! Thank you for getting rid of the solid colours. From a old web printers view, its much better and I like the way it auto expands and fills my 32" LCD.
scathach Sep 11, 2008 5:58 AM	oooh new greeness and shininess. looking very proper now.
N3M3SiS Sep 11, 2008 8:22 AM	Dont listen to 'em Atomic! I think the sight looks absolutely FANTASTIC! It was never going to be easy to make the transition from such a 'traditional' layout and design but I think you've done an outstanding job! Congratulations to all - I look forward to poking around all the new bits and bobs all of today! Huzzah! ;)
Hawkeye Sep 11, 2008 8:28 AM	archive.atomicmpc.com.au for all the old forums, as well as PMs :) - DH
CloAkEd Sep 11, 2008 12:08 PM	Yeah its great. But Unfortunately for me, becuase you now have forums in the address, it doesnt get behind the corporate firewall. /grumble grumble, Suppose I should do work now!
aphexone Sep 11, 2008 12:28 PM	awesome work on the site pplz :)looks much nice yah :)
silhouette Sep 11, 2008 12:56 PM	Looks very slick :)
imek Sep 11, 2008 4:08 PM	Good stuff, seems a lot of other sites I'm at also happened to go through a similar (out with the old and in with the new) change. I like :)
Snoochems Sep 11, 2008 8:52 PM	nice...
Juggalo Scrub Sep 13, 2008 6:29 PM	Neatsu!

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